About Us
Our shared purpose with the partners and people that make it all happen.
At Ballista, we believe that world-leading, scalable technology builds the future of tomorrow’s business and society.
OUR STORY
Ballista is the result of a merge of two leading technology consulting companies, Carrera and Northscaler. These two companies have been at the forefront of solving and rethinking some of the hardest problems and sharing that knowledge with the enterprises, organizations, and the community. With the combined strength in Ballista, we can tackle larger problems with more tools to accelerate and modernize delivery.
We work with some clever folks…
Our People
At Ballista, we believe our strength lies in the diversity and raw talent of our team members. With employees and offices around the world, our team brings different perspectives and impressive academic rigor. We are proud to work alongside scientists, engineers, software architects, and business leaders who share the same beliefs and values.
Proud Partnership
Pratexo is a plug-and-play edge computing platform that helps us quickly create a reference architecture. It seamlessly generates deployment scripts, documentation, and tests. Their cutting-edge design platform allows us to significantly speed up the time to delivery.
Meet the Leadership Team
Each a master of their respective craft.
As a data scientist, author, speaker, engineer, podcaster, entrepreneur, and inventor, Angelo has served in various executive positions (CTO, COO, CEO) in health IT, consulting, and fintech before founding the consulting firm Carrera Group. Angelo received his graduate degree from Harvard University, studying high-performance computers and artificial intelligence. His research in the Harvard Data Systems Laboratory focused on artificial intelligence methods that enable self-tuning data resulting in patents and published research. Angelo is currently the Managing partner of Ballista Technology Group (a high-performance computing consulting firm and next-generation operational VC) and host of the Counting Sand podcast.
PETTER GRAFF is a serial entrepreneur. Petter started his career working for Dresser industries building large distributed real-time systems. After a few years as Director of Technology for Icon Computing, he went on to create a set of companies including InferData, SciSpike and VappusNet. Petter is a teacher, consultant, and mentor for many of the Fortune 500 companies (including COSTCO, NASA, Northwestern Mutual, Panasonic, PayPal, etc). Over the last 20 years, Petter has specialized in areas of extreme scalability and best practices building web-scale software. He is an O'Reilly author and a frequent speaker at various conferences and universities both in the US and around the world. The topics of his courses include:“Design Patterns and Architectures”, “Big Data and Hadoop”, “Advanced Apache Spark”, “Machine Learning”, “Advanced C++”, “Advanced Java”, “Functional Programming for Object-Oriented Programmers”, “Software Architecture for the C-Suite”, “Apache Kafka”, “Advanced Spring”, “Advanced Domain Modeling”, and “Advanced Node.js”.
GAUTE ENGBAKK is an international executive with expertise in business development & sales, go-to-market, technology and transformational leadership. His foremost skill is to build companies larger, grow teams and realign the business with the proper strategy. Gaute is a technologist by education - with a Master of Science in Computer Science from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). More recently, he has added financial and leadership educational programs from e.g. London Business School. His last company build-up was Techstep – a buy & build where eight companies were merged according to a common strategy for growth and had their business strategies transformed to one of solutions selling. The company was subsequently listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange.. Gaute sits on the board of directors in several companies, both privately held and PE-owned. He has a passion for helping technology companies with good products and great people to achieve commercial scale.